{"product_id":"scot-mist-9781448307357","title":"Scot Mist","description":"As the pandemic hits the residents of The Last Ditch Motel put Operation Cocker into action: create a safe community with a select few offered rooms as a safe haven. When ambiguous, threatening signs appear then a gruesome discovery is made, their attempt to form a safe space fails. But is it an outsider responsible, or someone inside?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn and raised in West Lothian, \u003cb\u003eCatriona McPherso\u003c\/b\u003en left Edinburgh University with a PhD in Linguistics and worked in academia, as well as banking and public libraries, before taking up full-time writing in 2001. For the last ten years she has lived in Northern California with frequent visits home. In 2020 she was shortlisted for a third Mary Higgins Clark Award, for \u003ci\u003eStrangers at the Gate\u003c\/i\u003e, and won her second Left Coast Crime Lefty Award in the Best Humorous Mystery category for the Last Ditch series, this time for \u003ci\u003eScot and Soda\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Severn House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50508394004754,"sku":"9781448307357","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_06d550f6-2001-479f-bb15-836ef17451e3.jpg?v=1730876907","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scot-mist-9781448307357","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}